LabView Seriplex Driver -- does one exist?

[Justin Goeres]

Greetings all. I've searched the web and the newsgroups and have found
nothing to answer my question...

I need to use LabView to interface to a Seriplex I/O network through a
Seriplex PCI card (SquareD SPXPCINTFV2). The card comes with some low-level
raw C code functions and a programmer reference on the protocol and
functions.

I'm faced with the prospect of developing a driver for this card by either
compiling the code into DLLs (something I've never actually done before) or
trying to build CINs. I lean toward the DLL approach, because the functions
are pre-written and really don't have any weird parameters.

Has anyone else here (or anywhere!) done this already? I'd love to save
myself some work if possib
le. I don't need a full-on driver; I just need
basic functionality to let me control the devices on the bus and detect
basic error conditions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Justin

Justin Goeres
Indio Systems, Inc.
Pleasanton, CA
jgoeres@indiosystems.com

[Darren]

Justin,

I just searched the web for any LabVIEW resources for Seriplex hardware and came up with zilch. At this point you have two options...you can contact Seriplex to see if they have any LabVIEW drivers, or you can develop your own driver. There are some great resources at www.ni.com/idnet for developing you own drivers.

Good luck, and have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Darren Nattinger
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Justin Goeres]

Thanks, Darren. I had the same experience searching the web. I've talked
to various Seriplex vendors and they've all said something to the effect of,
"LabView? What's that?" 🙂

Like I said, I have some barebones C code (actually just pre-processor
directives) that implement the Seriplex functions, so I think for now I'll
roll them into functions and then make DLL calls. However, the driver
really just needs to read and write to the correct memory registers to do
everything I need it to do, so it might be possible to do it natively in
LabView later on (should that be natively, or naively?).

Well, thanks again.
Justin


"Darren" wrote in message
news:506500000005000000F2350000-993342863000@exchange.ni.com...
> Justin,
>
> I just searched
the web for any LabVIEW resources for Seriplex
> hardware and came up with zilch. At this point you have two
> options...you can contact Seriplex to see if they have any LabVIEW
> drivers, or you can develop your own driver. There are some great
> resources at www.ni.com/idnet for developing you own drivers.
>
> Good luck, and have a nice day.
>
> Sincerely,
> Darren Nattinger
> Applications Engineer
> National Instruments